I just don’t get why so many people hate this girl! The reviews on itunes are mostly about hating her and not even about her music. What exactly did she supposedly do that was so horrible. What I find most odd is all the people who say she can’t sing! Even people who like her a lot will say we we know she is not the best singer…but
Sorry but there is nothing wrong with this girl’s voice. A singer who is technically perfect is very rare in the world and usually incredibly BORING. My example would be Whitney Houston, there is no doubt she has the pipes but 90% of her music says nothing and evokes no emotion in me. Mariah Carey’s five octaves aggravate me, it is about vocal gymnastics not a message. Music is supposed to be about self expression, sharing something from the soul. Ashlee does that well I think. Obviously at almost 45 years old I am way beyond some of the lyrics because they are the soul expression of a 20 something. But It isn’t like I have forgotten being 20 something and I relate to her perspectives representing a lot of things I was feeling at her age.
I find her music very honest with an emotional raw quality that is rare in pop music. The itunes haters keep saying over and over things like she is poser, I find that just silly. Just because her sister was popular before her doesn’t been she wants to be her sister, or is trying to be different from her sister. They are two different people with different things to say. I have never really been drawn to Jessica’s sickly sweet persona, Can’t say anything about her music since I don’t have any of it and I liked her in Dukes of Hazard. Ashlee is her own talent, and should not be compared to Jessica. She was working long before most people knew who she was, acting on Seventh Heaven. Sure it was a cheesy little show but she did fine playing her role.
I’ve had her first album for quite some time and have really enjoyed it and then recently got the newest album, Bittersweet World. She had preformed the song “Boys” on dancing with the Stars. I thought that is a catchy little song and specifically looked for the album the next time I was in wal-mart. It is a great album and I have been listening to it often while exercising.
While I was at itunes I wondered about her second album, I knew she had one, but hadn’t seen it at the store at a time I had extra cash for music. That’s when I found the depth of hatred for her. I was shocked! I thought WTF is with this? Why is the reaction to this girl so intense? These can’t just possibly be Jessica fans that hate her sister? Some people mentioned that people only bought her music because of her reality show. I had no idea she had a reality show on MTV because I gave up watching MTV years ago when they stopped playing music and started filling space with specific 20 something programming. I download the second album (I Am Me) and gave it a listen and it is a great little album too.
So listen up you Ashlee haters why don’t you try and write some music of your own and sing it out and see if anyone wants to buy your perspective. I think Ashlee must be strong girl with all that energy out there being thrown at her all the time. It would have crushed me at her age. So go Ashlee just make a good song about the haters for your next album! LOL
I grew up in the 60s and 70s and in all honestly Ashlee can out sing a great deal of the most popular singers of the time. It’s the message, the energy, the expression that counts. Too many singers really have nothing to say. Ashlee has lots to say and that always brings forth some haters, but the amount of haters out there tells me I need to listen even a little more closely than I already have. She is pushing buttons and that means what she is saying is relevant! She has evoked a lot of emotions…. WELL DONE
Wrong by a long shot, wow
David Archuletta 44% David Cook 56% of 97 million votes holy crap that is a lot of votes I wonder how many people are out there like me that love to watch Idol but don’t even vote?
That’s a shock I thought Archuletta had it, but ultimately with 97 million votes that means he got over 42 million votes so that is more than enough to start a healthy career in music! I always new David Cook would have a healthy career if he won or not. Pretty clear they both will do well and numerous other members of the top 10.
Wow the song the two Davids sang together at the beginning was better than either of them separate last night. Then OMG Mike Myers, Guru Pitka LOL
Not more Sanjaya barbs leave the kid alone! At least Kimmel didn’t say he couldn’t sing. While he is no David, and he was really bad at song choice, the kid has a voice and luckily a great sense of humor 
I love Jordin but who chose that dress???? it was dreadful! I was kind of surprised to see her singing since she has been on vocal rest, You could hear her voice was still somewhat strained. Well now that I think about it she was on with Chris Brown a few weeks ago and she sounded good then.
Oh I forgot about Michael Johns in my post on David Cook I hope he makes a album! And Amanda the gravely rocker oh crap pretty much all of the top 10-12 could make a record this year.
NOPE I just don’t see it! He’ll still make a good record and we’ll buy it, but last night little Archuletta was on point. For a few weeks there I was wondering where he went, he wasn’t quite the kid I fell in love with listening to. I suppose the pressure and nerves in the situation are just overwhelming at any age. Last night though he was back and wow when he is on, he really touches your heart.
So we love you David Cook but I do believe you will be coming in second tonight, second though is pretty damn good! This has really been a good season I think we can look forward to several good albums coming out. Jason, Brooke, hopefully, Carly, Syesha, and of course the two Davids, that’s a lot of music out of one season. I suppose we are likely to get a country album too from the little blond but I’m just not into country or her singing so I could care less.
On my mind at this moment is the healing of the earth. We all know there is a need for healing. We have just allowed ourselves to believe it is the earth herself that needs the healing, when in truth it is the condition ON the earth… the human condition. It is in fact the people that need to heal. The healing for the planet is in removing all the dark forces so the whole can be at one. This came to mind because I was looking at the chant for the drumming tape my family made in 1991 Heal the Heartbeat. I was remembering how at that point we believed it was the earth herself in need of healing, instead of the conditions on earth. Yet the chant which came through unexpectedly is clearly about rebirth. The chant came partly to my mother in a dream she awoke with the first verse and had to write it down. When she said she received something in a dream we all knew it must be important because she is a person who rarely remembers any dream. She set the verse in front of me and it just hit me and I said “oh I know this chant”, and proceeded to write down the rest of the verses. They came flying out clearly and we immediately went to the drum to figure out the beat. The rebirth (birth of the phoenix) is a return to balance. The earth did in fact birth a piece of her consciousness in 1995 0r 1996, I don’t recall off the top of my head. That consciousness is to be a new planet, the manifestation of that is currently being worked on in the next universe. Once we got through that labor, now it is time for the earth mother to experience the freedom of living free of the dark forces that have controlled life on her surface for her whole existence. In fact these forces tried to get her consciousness to turn against God. She has always been steadfast; they did not succeed in turning the consciousness of any planetary body against God.
I’m not sure why this is on my mind right now. Maybe because as the powers of the dark force meet and continue to plan for more of the same. The Earth Mother stands with us in SOLIDARITY. If we have moments when we wonder if we can pull this off, she is there. She has never lost faith in us. We will set ourselves free from the control of the dark forces and she will be set free at the same time. She could go on without this freedom, without life on her surface as Mars has; she is strong and will endure. We however do not think that is good enough, any more than we believe it is good enough for ourselves. Healing the heartbeat to me is returning the Earth Mother and all life on her surface to the one heartbeat of the Divine.
Heal The Heartbeat
Hear the heartbeat of the mother
When Great Spirit walks the land
Now her labor pains are starting and
Great Spirit holds her hand
White Buffalo Woman walks together
With Great Spirit for the plan
Hear the Heartbeat of the mother
Now Great Spirit walks the land
Walk the path of love and beauty
Aid the mother and the plan
Stand as one with the Great Spirit
Now we all must walk our talk
We are one now with the heartbeat
When Great Spirit walks the land
Hear the heartbeat of the mother
Oh Great Spirit bless this walk
As her labor now progresses
Oh Great Spirit hold our hand
All is different yet the same now
As the mother labors on
Mother bringing forth the Phoenix
Oh Great Spirit heal this land
In a moment birth pangs over
Now the mothers pain is gone
Phoenix flies free from the mother
the Great Spirit holds her hand
Now time is moving forward
Time that Phoenix takes her stand
Time for living in the heartbeat
Aid the mother as we can
Honoring truths of the Great Spirit
Walking freely upon this land
Healing of the Phoenix mother
This is the Great Spirit’s plan
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